Bohumír Frantisek Antonín Cermak (Czech1882 -1961) " Die Sünde "  (The Sin) ( Eve). The present sculpture is inspired by the works of his mentor and teacher, Austrian symbolist artist Otto Wagner (1841-1918), and by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918). It also bears considerable similarity to certain symbolist sculptures and works by Franz Von Stuck (1863 - 1928).

High quality cast bronze sculpture of Eve, with gilded hair, her body in antique brown and also with applied gilding to her anklets. Her head is encircled with a dark brown/black snake with dark green highlights and decorative markings. Artists signature inscribed and illegible date (either19 '07 or 19 '04),  and with full foundry marks and stamps for Bedrich Bendelmayer of Prague, the premier caster and founder in Prague of fine art sculpture from the late 19th and early 20th century.

There are many design elements in the snake's markings similar to metal work details created by this artist in his works dating to around 1910. Bohumír Cermak's work before the First World War demonstrated principles of Viennese Modernism. He followed in the footsteps of Josef Hoffmann and the Wiener Werkstätte. After returning to the Czech Republic he founded  The Cermak Handicraft Workshop in Brno (1910). His studio designed ceramics and unusual metal work in the secessionist style. Cermak was also an architect of  buildings (notably the Brno Exhibition Centre). He was also involved in numerous exhibitions worldwide, including the United States. The city of Brno is the second largest city after Prague in Czech Republic and has always been a hot bed for artists called"Moravians". Brno was the first city at the turn of the 20th century to be connected directly by rail to Vienna .
Dimensions: Height 25.5 inches or 65.5 cm

Barthelemi Felix Victor Emmanuel Villanis ( Italian / French ,1858- 1914)  "Sculpture" Edited in two sizes, this being the largest of the two and the rarest. An amusing sculpture of an artist working in an atelier on  a likeness of herself.
The smaller version is illustrated in the extensive biography of the artist by Jose Hortulanus- de Mik - Emmanuel Villanis  published 2002 -  page 74.  Bronze sculpture and bronze turning base, signed. Cast circa 1900
Dimensions: Height 27 & 1/2 inches

Standing strong man possibly German or Italian, in the style of Rembrandt Bugatti, circa 1910. High quality impressionist cast with illegible signature and foundry stamp and with a dark brown patina.
Dimensions: Height 10 &1/2 inches

Otto Gutfreund (Czech 1889-1927) "Don Quijote halva (Don Quixote head)" bronze. The present work was conceived in plaster during the years 1911-1912. This particular bronze cast dates from 1970. With a medium olive green patina and signed Gutfreund on the lower front of the cast.
Dimensions:  Height 15 inches

Edgardo Simone (Italian/American, b. Brindisi Italy 1890, d. 1948 Hollywood California)." Le tre Grazie"  A possibly unique sculpture of the three graces as water sprites dancing around a scallop shell bird bath.The son of a Brindisi doctor, Simone studied at the Beaux Arts Academy in Rome from 1906-1913. He worked in New York, Chicago and California after immigrating from Italy .
Signed Edgardo.Simone .Foundry markings for Lagana Napoli  Italy.
Dimensions: Height 17 &1/2 inches

Alfred (Fred) Hans Voelckerling ( German 1872 -1945 ) A German Expressionist bronze sculpture   "Polospielers" (Polo Players). Signed and marked Dresden. Hans Voelckerling studied at the Dresden School of Applied Arts and later at the Dresden Academy of Fine Art.  In Paris he worked in the studio of French master Emmanuel Frémiet. He also traveled to the United States, England and Scotland.This model was exhibited at the 1928 Olympic games in Amsterdam. Geroge Kolbe, Franz Von Stuck, Ernesto de Fiori, Arno Breker, Gerhard Marcks, William  Wauer, Renee Sintenis and Richard Scheibe were among his competitors from Germany that competed for Olympic Art Medals at the games of 1928.
Hans Voelckerling was highly prolific but few of his works survive as nearly all his work was melted down for the German war effort in the 1930's. During this time his studio was ransacked by the Nazi regime and most of his works were not only melted down but his plaster casts were also destroyed.
Dimensions: Height 13 inches by 11 inches in width by 13 inches in depth.

Francesco De Matteis ( Italian1852-1917) A rare, circa 1900, model by Neapolitan sculpor De Matteis of a young woman carrying wine vessels as she walks down a staircase in a provocative pose. De Matteis was a widely collected sculptor whose works depicted Southern Italian portrayals of daily life. Signed.
Dimensions : Height 22&1/2 inches.

Carl Kauba (Austrian 1865-1922) "Ajax ". Vienna Bronze sculpture of Ajax from  Homer's Iliad. Superbly executed bronze cast in a antique brown patina of a majestic Ajax, surrounded by his weapons of war, seated on an intricate striated black marble base (engraved with the title Ajax).
Dimensions: Height 12 &1/4 inches

Paul Ludwig Kowalczewski (German 1865-1910)  The Seduction of Danae . Unsigned bronze sculpture without a base.
Dimensions: Width 11 inches by7 &1/2 inches in height by 7 &1/4 inches in depth.

German or Austrian circa 1919 bronze sculpture of muscular semi-nude male in a loin cloth hurling a rock, possibly portraying Samson or Hercules.
High quality cast on a striated back marble base. Antique green/ brown patina.
Dimensions: Height 10 &1/4 inches

Bruno Zach (Austrian 1891-1945). "The Riding crop". A golden /light brown  polychrome bronze sculpture of a tall mistress in a tight fitting dress holding a long riding crop with who is about to engage and deal out some strict discipline. The circa 1920 cast is signed by Bruno Zach and is also incised "made in Austria". Bruno Zach cast several figures either in riding garb or scantily dressed attire demonstrating sadomasochistic erotica from Berlin night life of the1920's. These sculptures are the most highly prized in the oeuvre of the artist. Bonhams of London sold an identical model in their New York rooms for $9500 in 2005.
Please see pg.224 "Art Deco Sculpture" by Victor Arwas, published by Academy Editions/St Martins Press, 1992, for an image of a similar figure.
Dimensions Total height 17&3/4 inches.

Matthias Bechtold (German 1886-1940) A highly unusual and sexually charged bronze sculpture of a lascivious satyr, flicking his tongue in erotic abandon as he gazes into the eyes of a rapturous nymph. He cups her breast in his left hand, while cracking her thigh with his right hand as he mounts her from the rear. The nymph gazes upward while tightly clasping the satyr's right ear and pulling him downward in erotic abandon.
Signed and dated 1919.
Dimensions : Total height 10 inches by 10 inches in width.

Josef Maratka (Czech, 1874-1937) attributed, "Foundry-man". A Monumental life sized bust with foundry marks for Bartak Praha and painted white numerals ( usually the indication of museum inventory numbers.)
Maratka studied under in Prague Myslbek from 1896 to 1900. From 1901 to 1902 he worked at the atelier Rodin in Paris and organized the Rodin Exhibition in Prague. He worked with the master as a specialist craftsman and he is credited with working on several of Rodin's masterworks. He also worked with Bourdelle in Paris.
Dimensions: Height 20 inches by 24 inches in length by 17 &1/2 inches in depth

Ph. .E. Hamburger (German 1890-1930). A circa 1910 bronze sculpture on an unusual olive green striated base.The subject is a highly detailed and superbly modeled cabinet sculpture of a Trojan archer. Signed by the artist
Dimensions: Total height 16 inches.

Francesco Giuseppe Thyllmani (Italian, 1862-1936) A very rare late 19th /early 20th century bronze monumental in the realist Italian school, Satyr drinking wine.  Apparently unsigned.
Dimensions: Height of bronze 32 inches by 22 inches in width by 19 inches in depth

Ferdinand Liebermann (1883-1941) German circa 1919 bronze sculpture of a nude Amazonian nude woman with her bulldog. The sculpture unsigned but is fitted to a purpose carved wood base by the artist that has initials FL. This is possibly a sketch for a larger bronze
Dimensions: Height 13 &1/2 inches

Well modeled and Illegibly signed  Barbaritos ? and marked Lisboa bronze tennis player circa 1930 displaying a backhand stroke with a polychrome gold patina.
Dimensions: Total height 7 inches.